the railroad station and extended to the existing wall on Blakemore street by Daniel E. Lynch, under contract dated May 26, 1909. Work was begun June 7, 1909, and suspended November 1, 1909. The work was completed by the department force November 17, 1909. This is a rubble mortar wall, with a granite coping eighteen (18) inches wide. The wall was erected for the purpose of constructing Florence street to its full width, thus relieving a congested condition which has been a source of complaint for several years. The contractor furnished the materials for the original contract and the city for the extension. A contract was awarded to P. J. Dinn & Co. December 24, 1909, for erecting and painting a three (3) rail pipe fence on this wall. Work was begun January 25, 1910, and will be completed as soon as the weather conditions will permit. All the materials are to be furnished by the contractor. Haviland street, from Massachusetts avenue to Hemenway street, is about 479 feet in length. A contract for relaying the artificial stone sidewalks was awarded to James Doherty July 29, 1909. Work was begun August 3, 1909, and completed August 10, 1909. These sidewalks were laid under a five (5) year maintenance guarantee. Such of the existing walk as were found in good condition were allowed to remain. This work was necessitated by a settlement of the street and the consequent cracking of the sidewalk. The roadway was resurfaced with the division force. Huntington avenue, from Gainsborough street to Longwood avenue, is about 4,200 feet in length. The contract for resetting the edgestone in the track reservation on this street was awarded to Charles W. Dolloff April 21, 1909. Work was begun July 13, 1909, and completed July 31, 1909. The granite block paving at street crossings was reset by the contractor. All the materials were furnished by the contractor. The roadway was resurfaced by the division force and treated with bituminous binder. Huntington avenue, from Parker street to Ward street, is about 1,980 feet in length. A contract for resetting the edgestone, repaving the gutters and relaying the crosswalks was awarded to John E. Burns September 8, 1909. Work was begun September 8, 1909, and completed November 1, 1909. There was also a small amount of brick sidewalks relaid. The sidewalk bricks were furnished by the city on the line of the work. This work was necessitated by the settlement of the old roadway, the edgestone having settled more than a foot in some places. Morton street, from Washington street to Blue Hill avenue, is about 9,133 feet in length. The contract for surfacing this street with bituminous macadam, from Forest Hills street to Blue Hill avenue, was awarded to William J. Barry July 6, 1909. The limits of the contract were extended from Forest Hills street to Washington street August 16, 1909. Work was begun July 30, 1909, and completed September 23, 1909. Morton street is probably the most important crosstown thoroughfare between West Roxbury and Dorchester and carries a large traffic of light vehicles and automobiles. The original macadam surface was considerably worn and in places had been stripped of its binding material by the automobile traffic. The dust resulting from this disintegration was decidedly objectionable in dry weather. To obviate these conditions it was decided to resurface the roadway with bituminous macadam. The work was carried on in the following manner: The surface of the old roadway, where necessary, was reshaped with No. 1 crushed stone and compacted by rolling. On the surface thus prepared was deposited a top course of bituminous macadam of sufficient depth to produce a covering three (3) inches in thickness, after having been thoroughly consolidated by rolling with a twelve ton steam roller. After the materials had been thus compacted and rolled to a uniform surface there was spread upon it a thin coating of Sand, enough to fill voids, and again rolled. There was then spread upon the above a wearing surface of coarse screenings or sand three-eighths (3) of an inch in thickness and again rolled until compacted. The work was prosecuted only during warm and dry weather. The minimum temperature at which work was allowed was 65 degrees Fahrenheit. The bituminous compounds used for this work were heavy asphaltum oils produced by the Gulf Refining Company and the Standard Oil Company. The bituminous compound arrived on the work in tank cars provided with internal steam coils for heating. The oil was heated to a temperature of about 200 degrees Fahrenheit in the tank. It was then introduced with the stone into a rotary power concrete mixer. The stone and the bituminous compound were then mixed until each stone had been entirely coated. This mixture was immediately transported to the street and deposited. The crushed stone used was of No. 2 and No. 3 sizes and mixed in the proportion of about eighteen (18) gallons of bituminous compound to each cubic yard of crushed stone. This proportion of bituminous compound was afterwards slightly reduced as it was found to flush too freely to the surface. No stone was used that was not thoroughly dry. This work was laid with a maintenance guarantee of one (1) year. Norfolk Street Bridge. A contract for erecting about 85 feet of wooden fence at the Norfolk Street Bridge was awarded to P. J. Dinn & Co. October 30, 1909. The work consisted of erecting a wooden slat fence with iron posts and painting the same with three (3) coats of paint. All of the materials were furnished by the contractor. Northampton street, from Columbus avenue to Tremont street. The contract for constructing a bulkhead at the estate of A. W. Cole was awarded to George H. Cavanagh February 11, 1909. Work was begun March 5, 1909, and completed March 31, 1909. This work consisted of the construction of a wooden pile bulkhead about 132 feet in length, with a hard pine fence. All the labor and materials were furnished by the contractor. Nottingham street, from Bowdoin avenue to Bullard street, is about 626 feet in length. The contract for resetting the edgestone on a concrete base and relaying the gutters was awarded to Anthony Diamond May 17, 1909. Work was begun May 24, 1909, and completed June 8, 1909. The crushed stone and gravel were furnished by the contractor, who also did the excavating. The edgestone was set in a two (2) inch bed of Portland cement concrete, overlaying a four (4) inch bed of coarse crushed stone, which serves as an underdrain. A length of four (4) inch drain tile was inserted at catch basins to carry off any water that might collect. This construction is designed to prevent the dislodgement of the edgestones by the freezing of a saturated impervious soil. Such impervious or clay soils occur in widely distributed areas in Dorchester and West Roxbury and often cause serious disturbances of the sidewalk areas and edgestones. Old Colony avenue (and parts of D and West Ninth streets), from Dorchester avenue to Dorchester street, is about 2,528 feet in length. The contract for constructing the surface of this street was awarded to the Fred S. & A. D. Gore Corporation October 1, 1908. Work was begun October 14, 1908, and completed December 28, 1909. It is an eighty (80) foot street, with a six (6) inch macadam roadway, four (4) foot granite block hip gutters, granite edgestone at street corners, flagging crosswalks and gravel sidewalks twelve (12) feet in width. With the exception of the widening on the westerly side, this was the former roadbed of the Old Colony Railroad. The grading, taking down old retaining walls, building new walls and placing coping on parts of the old walls was completed this season. The building of fences on the coping of the retaining walls and the construction of the macadam surface was also completed this year. The new edgestone, crushed stone for the macadam and the materials for the fences were furnished by the contractor. The new paving blocks and flagging required were furnished by the city and hauled by the contractor. The new sidewalk bricks were furnished by the city on the line of the work. Parts of D street and West Ninth street were raised to meet the new grade of Old Colony avenue and the surface of these streets was replaced as before. Stony Brook Bridge, at Ashland and Canterbury streets, was extended about 16 feet by Thomas F. Minton, under contract dated June 22, 1909. Work was begun July 8, 1909, and completed August 4, 1909. This work was done for the purpose of widening Canterbury street at its junction with Ashland street. This is a plank and timber bridge with rubble mortar foundation walls. The city furnished a catch-basin and some paving blocks. All the other materials were furnished by the contractor. * St. Stephen street, from Bryant street to Gainsborough street, is about 1,100 feet in length. A contract for resetting the edgestone, repaving the gutters and relaying the brick sidewalks where necessary was awarded to William J. Rafferty & Co. November 10, 1909. Work was begun November 13, 1909, and completed December 2, 1909. The edgestone, paving blocks and sidewalk bricks were furnished by the city on the line of the work. This work was necessitated by a general Settlement of the street, the edgestone being raised on an average of 9 inches. The roadway was resurfaced by the division force. Summer street, south side, between Melcher street and A street, is about 276 feet in length. The contract for relaying the 'artificial stone sidewalk, resetting the edgestone and repaving the street where necessary was awarded to Warren Brothers Company November 16, 1908. Work was begun November 28, 1908, and suspended December 17, 1908. It was resumed April 8, 1909, and completed April 24, 1909. Summer street, north side, from Fort Point channel to A street, is about 651 feet in length. The contract for relaying the artificial stone sidewalk, resetting the edgestone and repaving the street where necessary was awarded to James Doherty June 5, 1909. Work was begun June 5, 1909, and completed June 19, 1909. This sidewalk was laid under a five (5) year maintenance guarantee. Work Done by Contract, 1909. Old. New. 41,871 linear feet. 37,943 linear feet. Edgestones set 51,077 square yards. Concrete base laid . . . . . . . . . . . . . * * * * * * Granite block paying laid, on a concrete base, with pitch and pebble joints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,870 && 28,559 4. Granite flagging laid on a concrete base, with pitch and pebble joints. . . . . . . . 443 {& 1,094.4 {{ Grafnite block paving laid on a gravel base, with gravel joints. . . . . . . . . . . . 10,301 {{ 14,065 {{ Granite flagging laid on a gravel base, with gravel joints. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494 & 930 {{ Wood block pavement laid on a con- * crete base . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,686 {{ Asphalt surface laid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,369 square yards. 676 &é Asphalt base and surface laid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,088 &ć Asphalt patching. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . crete base . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . a s s & a to 4 - - * * * * * * * * • * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * • * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * • * * * * * s • * * * * * * * * * * * 6,317.7 square yards. * * * * g e o 'o * * * * * * * * s is e e o o e a o e s : 31, 1910 e is e AMOUNT OF WoRK DONE BY PAVING SERVICE FORCES. Macadam resurfaced . 582,267 square yards. 256,112 square yards. 795 square yards. 29,043 square yards. 25,668 square yards. 3,010 square yards. 13,316 linear feet. 40,603 linear feet. 460 linear feet. 2,524 square yards. 79,570 square yards. 2,953 Square yards. 21.4 square yards. 5,380 square yards. 30,287 square yards. 1,730 square yards. 22,260 square yards. 7,311 square yards. 82,960 square yards. 205,242 square yards. 7,017 square yards. 250 square yards. 2,064 square yards. 1,047 cubic yards. 191 cubic yards. |